Volume 4: Issue 28 ~ April 30, 2008



Relay for Life-
A Community Effort

Calloway County's Relay for Life event is this Friday and Saturday from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. at Murray State's Roy Stewart Stadium. WKMS and many other people and businesses throughout our region have organized teams for the event - raising money through community car washes, bake sales, yard sales, rebate days at local restaurants, and more.
WKMS' Relay team members are: Stephanie Nutter-Osborne, Dr. Jeff Osborne, Kate Lochte, Dr. Bob Lochte, Ronda Gibson, Mark Welch, Nicole Erwin, Kathy Thweatt, Chad Lampe, Amanda Felber, Carrie Pond, Charlie Adams, and Stefanie Boer.

Calloway's effort is only one of thousands taking place across the nation annually to raise money for the American Cancer Society.

WKMS thanks Jay Baron, Owner of Mugsy's Hideout on the square in Murray for hosting a rebate day to help support our Relay team. Jay generously donated 10% of total meals bought at Mugsy's on April 22 to our team's total. Thanks for working with us Jay!

If you'd like to make a donation to the WKMS Relay team, click here now! Or, you can stop by our site this Friday between 7 p.m. and 7 a.m. to make a donation. Come out and witness all the effort put into this annual event by the folks in your community. There will be fun and activities for the kids, a silent auction, games, raffles, and much more!

Again, if you want to help in the fight to cure cancer, click here and make your donation today! Thanks.


Jay Baron, Owner Mugsy's Hideout in Murray and Stephanie
Nutter-Osborne, WKMS Membership Coordinator


This May, WKMS Serves Up Hidden Kitchens Specials From Across the Nation and Right Here in the Four Rivers Region!



Hidden Kitchens
is a duPont award-winning ongoing series of sound-rich stories on NPR's Morning Edition that explores how communities across the nation come together through food. Producers The Kitchen Sisters travel the country and chronicle all kinds of American kitchen cultures, past and present. Here's what you can expect in May 2 through 16...followed by a special WKMS produced Hidden Kitchens featuring culinary treasures right here in our region!

Fridays, May 2 & 9 at Noon
Explore secret, underground, unknown, unofficial, below the radar kitchen stories from across America with narrator and Oscar-winning actress Frances McDormand, including: Hidden Kitchens Calling; An Unexpected Kitchen: The George Foreman Grill; NASCAR Kitchens: Feed the Speed; Listener Phone Messages: An Impromptu Trucker's Buffet, and much more!

Friday, May 16 at Noon
Hosts Willie Nelson and Dallas-born actress Robin Wright Penn, along with singer Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Los Lonely Boys, and some extraordinary tellers take us across Texas and share their own hidden kitchens!

And Coming Friday, May 23 at Noon...
WKMS presents stories of hidden chefs and culinary treats throughout our region. More details to come in the May 15 issue of WIRED.

If YOU want to tell us about a tucked-away eatery in our region that delights your senses, send an e-mail to Stephanie Nutter-Osborne at stephanie.nutterosborne@murraystate.edu.

May's Hidden Kitchens series is underwritten in part by SereniTea Tea Company in Paducah.

For more information about NPR's Hidden Kitchens series, click here.
You can see the entire WKMS program schedule at wkms.org.


WKMS Underwriter Spotlight:
Murray Woman's Clinic


(Pictured left to right from top: Conrad Jones, M.D., Thomas L. Green, M.D., Kent Hjerpe, M.D., Janice Thurmond, ARNP, Sherry Freeman, ARNP, Donna Conatser, IBCLC - ARNP, and Dawn Nabavi Deeter, M.D.)

This month, WKMS salutes our longtime friends at the Murray Woman's Clinic. Over the past several years, the Clinic has supported the station by providing corporate challenge grants during our twice-yearly fundraisers. The Clinic's main office is nestled away under the trees across from Murray-Calloway County Hospital on South 8th Street with offices in the Regional Medical Center in Draffenville and the Medical Arts Building in Cadiz as well.

Seven physicians and three nurse practitioners bring 255 combined years of service to women in this region. Naturally, these folks know all about obstetrics, but they also offer services to women from every stage of life. They offer infertility treatment, menopause treatment and therapy, diagnosis and treatment of osteoporosis, and most recently, they've begun offering the new Essure procedure - a form of permanent birth control performed in the office with minimal recovery time.

Gary Houck, Practice Administrator and longtime WKMS Member, credits the nature of public radio when explaining why the Murray Woman's Clinic continues to support the station. "WKMS provides in-depth news analysis on issues of national interest including those related to healthcare. It also provides a variety of music for all tastes. These attributes make WKMS unique among all the choices listeners have in this area." Houck continues, "As scientist and writer William A. Foster once said, 'Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction, and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives.' This describes WKMS perfectly."

If you want to underwrite quality programming and reach the WKMS audience with your marketing message, give us a call at 800/599-4737, or e-mail our Promotion & Development Director at ronda.gibson@murraystate.edu.


WKMS UNDERWRITERS
WKMS thanks the following businesses for becoming underwriters or renewing their underwriting during the month of April. For information about becoming a WKMS underwriter, e-mail ronda.gibson@murraystate.edu or call 1-800-599-4737.

WKMS Seeks Morning Edition Host

Click here
to learn more about this important and exciting opportunity, and what YOU need to do to apply.

Deadline for submission of applications is Monday, May 5.


MAY WE PROPOSE...

Will you share YOUR special marriage proposal with us? (Please say, "I do," and read on.)

WKMS is looking to create a quite "engaging" series this June, but we need your help!

How did you propose marriage?
How was it proposed to you?
We want to know!

Click here to share your special proposal moment. And thanks.


Jazz in the Park
Brings Music, Eats & Family Fun to Murray's Central Park Next Week

This year marks the 10th anniversary of Jazz in the Park - and it's shaping up to be the best yet!

Things kick off at noon on Saturday,
May 10 with performances from area school jazz ensembles (continuing throughout the afternoon), a variety of Band Booster concessions, a street festival with face painting and fun activities for the kids, and at 7 p.m. the event is topped off with a performance from The Todd Hill Orchestra.

Take advantage of this opportunity to support and encourage our students' musical talents. After all, they're the future of jazz music!

Jazz in the Park is free and open to the public.


Click & Clack Want You to Make Something Out of That Ol' Wreck Ya Never Drive!



Got an old car you don't need? Think you don't have the time to "get rid" of it? Donate it to your public radio station through Car Talk's Vehicle Donation Program! WKMS Friends Barbara Cobb of Murray and Bill and Vanessa Crump of Madisonville did - so can you!

Visit cartalk.com today for details.



Click on the above image for the latest local news and info at the
WKMS News web page
.



Click here for info on events occurring throughout the Four Rivers Region!


Quote Me on That...

"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
Martin Luther King Jr., Civil Rights Leader
(1929-1968)


And Don't Forget...

Mother's Day is May 11th!

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